Have you ever really listened to yourself during the day?
What do you hear? After the New Year I became keenly aware of my speech. Some
days I'm full of jokes and laughter; I speak kindly to my family and friends
but for the most part all I heard was grumbling. Whereas I'm aware of it and I
catch myself and correct it...I'm still in that "mode". When I catch myself
getting negative, I stop and I pray, in that instant! I have to because it's
easy to focus on what's wrong and what I want....and those were my solutions to
the problems. Not at any point in time in my grumblings did I ask myself
"What is God calling for and what can I do to fix it?" My solutions and my grumblings were rooted in
selfishness plain and simple....I wanted what I wanted, when I wanted it and
like a petulant child I tend to let God and everybody else know.
Philippians 2: 14 Do
everything without grumbling or arguing,
Romans 12:2 And
be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
of God.
Philippians 4:11 Not
that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
[therewith] to be content.
Negativity will quickly consume you if you allow it to take
root.
My new mantra – God id good all the time, and all the time
God is good.
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